It’s time for the last of the historical books. Esther Esther is a story about a girl. Another book of the Bible is Ruth, which is also a story about a woman who did amazing things that have inspired folks for thousands of years. Background of Esther Cyrus was the first king of the Persian […]
Review Last week we learned that the Bible is true and trustworthy. Also, the empires, Assyria and Babylon, had taken over Israel and Judah, respectively. Ezra and Nehemiah The prophet Jeremiah (25:11) announced that the Israelites would be in exile for 70 years. A new king named Cyrus came to power. Cyrus was the first Persian […]
Where are we in the Bible? There are two sections in the Bible: Old Testament and New Testament. We are currently in the Old Testament, which itself is divided into sections. So far we are gone through the Pentateuch (or the Torah), which are the first five books: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. The […]
Review Last week we learned about all the 39 kings of Israel and Judah. What were God’s prophets (those who deliver God’s messages to the kings to return to God) doing during all this time? They kept delivering messages to the kings to return to God or there would be trouble. The LORD used Elijah […]
Let’s start at the beginning Our world is drowning in sin. Sin is: ignoring God and doing things our own way… it’s breaking God’s laws… it’s why the world is so full of fighting, death, disease… it’s why we hurt each other and why the whole world is broken. Sin started with Adam and Eve […]
Review Last time the story in 1 Kings discussed the consequences of King Solomon’s sins (idolatry and accumulation of horses), which was a divided kingdom. The northern 10 tribes followed a man named Jeroboam who set up two golden calf idols. The reason why Jeroboam led his people to worship idols is because he didn’t […]
Review 1 and 2 Samuel We have learned about the first 3 kings of Israel: King Saul, King David, and King Solomon. They all made mistakes but each handled those mistakes differently. What happened when these three kings sinned? King Saul: made excuses King David: repented, asked God for forgiveness King Solomon: acted like nothing was […]
Review King David was the previous king. David did many great things: conquered the Philistines, united the kingdom of Israel (all the tribes), built the capital city, Jerusalem, and few other things. David also did one bad thing: he stole another man’s wife and had her husband killed. After being confronted by the prophet, Nathan, […]
Quick 1 Samuel Review Saul was Israel’s first king and he didn’t do such a good job, which means he didn’t always do what God told him. In fact, Saul wanted to kill David (who was going to be the next king after Saul). 2 Samuel 2 Samuel is the 10th book of the Bible […]
King Saul The Israelites had the meanest bunch of enemies they had ever seen: the Philistines. They came from the sea around 1100 BC. The Israelites were scared of the Philistines (fear). All they had to do was trust God (faith) and follow his instructions (Torah), and the LORD would take care of Israel’s enemies. […]
Review A long time ago God created man and woman. We fell, we sinned, we ignored God and went our own way. With the stain of sin on us we had to leave God and live on our own (we all earned death). But, God has a rescue plan (to save us from the punishment […]
Review of Judges: source YouTube Cycle of Apostasy Israelites would abandon God and worship idols. God would send them an oppressor to punish his people. The Israelites would cry out the the LORD for help. God would raise up a Judge to rescue his people. The Judge would drive out the oppressor and rescue God’s […]
Review of Genesis thru Joshua God made people to be close to him (Genesis 1-2). But our bad choices has broken God’s creation and brought death into the world (Genesis 3). God wants to rescue us from sin and death (Genesis 3:15). God picks a group of people to be part of his rescue plan […]
Who wrote the Bible? Good question, right? Well, some kids in the video gave some possible answers to that question. Here are some of their thoughts: lots of people who love Jesus only one maybe two people nobody lots of writers the disciples, apostles God made the Bible Nehemiah David Moses prophets and apostles some […]
What is the Bible? Perhaps science can answer this question… According to Doctor Schniffenhousen, the Bible is 3 things: Paper: made from wood. Ink: derived from black carbon and oil. Leather wrapper: made from a cow. Tongue-in-cheek: Perhaps science cannot answer this question :). “Never ask a scientist to do a Sunday school teacher’s job.” (Sunday school […]